Distrest

There have appeared, likewise, under his name, a comedy, called the Distrest Wife, and the Rehearsal at Gotham, a piece of humour.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746

Distrest of all Lands, and wou'd be as Rich as she wants to be, provided always, dear _Tom_, that like some good-natur'd thriving

A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753 Anonymous

“The Distrest Wife” was produced at Covent Garden Theatre on March 5th, 1734, [17] and the Duke and Duchess of Queensberry were present at the performance.

Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) Melville, Lewis 1921

“The Distrest Wife,” another of the posthumous plays, was a poor thing, and Swift was much annoyed that it was staged.

Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) Melville, Lewis 1921

This, says Pope, had been tried for the first time in favour of the Distrest Mother; and was now, with more efficacy, practised for Cato.

Life of Addison, 1672-1719 1909

Fields; "The Distrest Wife" and a farce, "The Rehearsal at Goatham," which last were printed, respectively, in 1743 and 1754.

Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) Lewis Melville 1903

"The Distrest Wife," another of the posthumous plays, was a poor thing, and Swift was much annoyed that it was staged.

Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) Lewis Melville 1903

When Lewis Theobald, the Shakespearean critic, brought out his 'Double Falshood, or the Distrest Lovers,' in

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

Modern Husband, 1732; the Covent Garden Tragedy, 1732, a broad and rather riotous burlesque of Ambrose Philips 'Distrest Mother; and the Debauchees; or, The Jesuit Caught,

Fielding Dobson, Austin 1883

Vanity of Human Wishes, by dying suddenly of apoplexy while he is considering what he will do with Mr. Allworthy's property (when it reverts to him); or that admirable scene, commended by Macaulay, of Partridge at the Playhouse, which is none the worse because it has just a slight look of kinship with that other famous visit which Sir Roger de Coverley paid to Philips's Distrest Mother.

Fielding Dobson, Austin 1883